Category Archives: Hedge Fund Regulation

Short Selling Restrictions Approved By SEC

New York (HedgeCo.net) – The SEC adopted a new rule to place certain restrictions on short selling when a stock is experiencing significant downward price pressure. The measure is intended to promote market stability and preserve investor confidence. This alternative […]

Investors Questioning Economic Recovery

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Investors are positioning themselves for halts in both Europe and China’s economic recovery, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for February. Investors have scaled back their growth expectations, retreated into cash and […]

Capital Introduction Trends Affecting the Hedge Fund Industry

New York – (HedgeCo.net) – New York based institutional investment research company, Carbon 360, conducted a survey of third party marketers as well as capital introductions groups titled “Capital Introduction Trends in 2010”, to investigate the most sought after strategies, […]

Hedge Fund Company Morningstar Acquires Regulatory Specialist Team

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Independent hedge fund research company, Morningstar, Inc.  has acquired the Footnoted business of Financial Fineprint Inc., a privately held firm based in Peekskill, N.Y. Footnoted.org was founded in 2003 by Michelle Leder, author and journalist. Footnoted’s […]

Hedge Fund Regulators Turn Up The Heat

New York (HedgeCo.net) – FINRA and the SEC have recently issued statements and taken bold steps to put the industry on watch, hedge fund compliance consulting firm, FrontLine Compliance, LLC., reports. FINRA is now being more active with exams, document […]

The Real Opportunities Behind Self-Directed IRAs: Dream Homes, Businesses and Roth IRA Tax Breaks

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Jaime Raskulinecz, a longtime real estate investor, founded Entrust Northeast, LLC., as a means of combining her avid interest in buying rental properties while also building a productive business opportunity. “I founded Entrust Northeast after struggling […]

Toscafund official: Reports of London’s as hedge fund epicenter are overstated

According to a story published in the Financial Times, not everyone believes that London’s status as an international financial center is in jeopardy. In fact, despite the defections of well-known funds BlueCrest Capital and Brevan Howard in recent months, not […]

$200 Billion Cap On Collapse Fund – Barney Frank

New York (HedgeCo.net) – The fund which the U.S. House Financial Services Committee is setting up to dismantle large insolvent financial institutions will be limited to $200 billion, MarketWatch reported earlier today. “The cap we have is $200 billion,” House […]

Hedge funds in 2009 recovery

Cayman Compass – The average hedge fund recorded gains of 2.42 per cent in July data released by hedge fund data provider Hedge Fund Research shows. Hedge fund assets have increased on average by more than 12 per cent in […]

Hedge-Fund Destruction Is the Route to Salvation: David Reilly

Bloomberg – Like plenty of financial players, hedge funds are taking a beating. Many once-high-flying managers have been swamped by losses. Others have abandoned the business after discovering it wasn’t such an easy path to riches. Even some of the […]

A fund manager who protested too much

Globe and Mail – When Mark Bloom was arrested last week in New York for allegedly bilking clients of North Hills Fund, the case marked a new low in the hedge fund world. Not just because Mr. Bloom had allegedly […]

Madoff scandal doesn’t justify clampdown

UnionLeader.com – For sheer toe-curling embarrassment, it may be a while before Wall Street does better than the Bernard Madoff scandal. Here was a rogue who practically telegraphed his unreliability by hiring a tiny, no-name audit firm, by reporting monthly […]